Ethnicity, Race, and the Bible Part IV… · 2018-04-24 · Genealogies in the Primeval History...
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Ethnicity, Race, and the BiblePart IV
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The Table of Nations
n Genesis 10:1-32, is known as the “Table of Nations”n It is a verbal “map” of the world (W. Brueggemann, Genesis -91)
n It is one of two genealogies at the end of the Primeval History
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Primeval History
n Primeval History – First eleven chapters of Genesisn Distinct from the other “historical” material n About the origins of the universen Universal in nature, timeless in scope (how things came to be
and how things are)
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Genealogies in the Primeval History
n Purpose?n Every genealogy has a purpose…n Demonstrate the characters are following the command to be
fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1)n Follow the universal family before the Tower of Babeln Direct our attention to one family in preparation for Abraham in
chapter 12n 4:1, 4:17ff, 5:1, 10:1ff, 11:10 ff
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Outline of Primeval History
n 1:1-2:4 Creation 1n 2:4b-3:24 Creation 2n 4:1-16 Cain and Abeln 4:17-6:4 Cain’s descendants (genealogy)n 6:5-9:17 Flood Narrative
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n 9:18-10:32 Noah’s Genealogyn 11:1-9 Tower of Babeln 11:10-29 Noah’s Genealogy, cont.
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Noah’s Genealogy 9:18-10:32
n In a post-flood worldnThree sons – segmented genealogynFollows three sonsnFollows the narrative curse of Ham in 9:18-29
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n 9:18 …”Ham was the father of Canaan…”nWhy is this detail given?nWhat is the political landscape of the people who are
telling this story?
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The Nations…
nCanaanitesn Ishmaelites*nMoabites* and Ammonites*nPhilistinesnEdomites*nAramaeans*
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nHow does Israel depict her neighbors to reflect political realities?
nWho are these people in reality?n “othering”n Is this race, politics or both?nConstruction of identity to promote an agenda
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Genesis 10:1-32
nWho gets the most “air-time?”nWho/what is important to the narrator?
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Tower of Babel
nWhy does it happen?nWhat is God’s response?nWhy do we have different nations?nDoes an event in history change our origins?
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Genesis 11:10-32
nTransition from universal to one familynStory of AbrahamnAbrahamic 3-fold promise…blessingn Is it the intention of the promise to restore all nations?